There are many Runescape updates that occur, the main weekly update, and bug patches, etc. This does not give an exact day for a name transfer because people seeking to snipe names don't know which update you will transfer during. Also, Runescape updates do not occur at the exact time and day each week, this provides a degree of randomness that would make it near-impossible for a snipe to occur if done correctly.
I'd like to restate that there is no harm in informing members of the community that transferring a name during a Runescape update increases success rates.
It's about time the 'secrets' of the elite few name sellers get shared with the rest of the player base.
So a player would have to be on watch 24/7 hoping to catch a random system update? Not only that, but if they do happen to be online during one, they'll have to hope they're name is ready to be transferred at that time.
Also, what if they're unable to find a system update, and while waiting for one too much time elapses and their name becomes available to the public?
Right, usually they occur Tuesday afternoon GMT, however there are plenty of times where updates are delayed a day or two, or multiple updates to patch a bug are done in the same day.
I agree with the rest of what you have written. The success rate is near 100% when transferring during an update.
The only argument I have seen against including this information in the sticky is 'if more people know then it won't work' which is untrue. This argument is a facade for selfishness translated to: 'I want to keep this information from other people because I don't want them to have the same advantages I do' or even 'don't tell people about it then I can't snipe their names'.
Bright Eyes
1. I never said including that information would make the method not work. Read my post, I said it would make it more likely that the wrong people would take advantage of it.
2. Again, in my first post I said I've always told my buyers about this method (if they asked for help, that is)
3. I speak from experience. Public Knowledge of the name collector "secrets" is in part what brought the business's downfall. From Novemeber 2010 through January 2011, there were less than a dozen people who knew how to even take names from the releases. Only a few people were selling them at that point, the rest of us were merely collecting for the fun of it. But as the collections grew, the appeal of selling off our surplus became greater.
Then a certain rare name clan got involved, and it became a competition. Twice as many people now knew how to take names and the whole thing began to get very daunting.
And
then the big dicing clans began to take interest. At this point the process for taking names was common knowledge, and anyone could do it. However, near the beginning of the summer, the shit hit the fan. People began to have more free time on their hands, everyone knew how to take names, and stealing stealing them (sniping, or w/e you call it) gained popularity, not surprisingly, because it's much easier than grabbing a name legitimately.
I bring up dicing clans not only because they helped spread the rare name hype, but also because tons of names were stolen by members of cora and dd.
That's only the tip of the iceberg too. There are plenty of other examples I can give for why certain things are best kept hidden from the public eye (not denied to them, only hidden from view) when it comes to rare names.
If you're gonna twist my words around, then that's all I have to say.
I really don't like wasting my time with dramatic cynics.
